Perhaps you needed to run: depmod -a Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: <dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu> To: "Ben Lutgens" <blutgens at sistina.com>; <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] ReiserFS > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:57:47PM -0600, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:43:42PM -0600, dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > > >I know a lot of people on the list have played with ReiserFS, so maybe some > > >of you have seen my problem before. I had a few spare moments this weekend > > >and decided to play with the 2.4.1 kernel and ReiserFS. I've got ReiserFS > > >support compiled in and I downloaded, compiled and installed the newest > > >reiserfs-utils. I have a RAID and I had a have a spare 50 GB partition > > >laying around, so I figured, what the hell :) Anyway, mkreiserfs went > > >without a hitch: > > > > Software RAID or HW RAID? It matters, there are some locking issues with > > certain types of software RAID and journaled filesystems. > > It's hardware RAID. > > > > > > > > >ATTENTION: ALL DATA WILL BE LOST ON '/dev/sda6'! (y/n)y > > >journal size 8192 (from 18) > > >Initializing journal - 0%....20%....40%....60%....80%....100% > > >Syncing..done. > > > > > >but I can't mount the drive > > > > > ># mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/reiser > > >mount: /dev/sda6 has wrong major or minor number > > > > A quote from reiserfs.org FAQ > > "I get the following message: > > > > mount: /dev/hda5 has wrong major or minor number > > > > reiserfs is not compiled in and not available as a module." > > > > Sure you're booting with the right kernel? I've built kernels before and > > didn't run lilo on them and had this happen. > > > > Well, shortly after I sent out my message, I threw up my hands and tried > rebooting and was then able to mount the partition. I rebooted to the same > kernel that I was using before the reboot, so it must have just been > something weird. Who knows. Thanks for the info, none the less. > > Gabe > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "My dinosaur droppings! Painted like Easter eggs!" > - Ren Hoek in "Sven Hoek" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >